Goal 2: Foster Student Success

Ensure sufficient learning opportunities and enhance resources to support students' progress through academics, workforce development and student services. Improve key indicators of student success, including retention, graduation, transfer and placement rates. Enhance curricula to ensure they are designed for students to acquire and demonstrate essential competencies.

Subgoal 1: Adopt best practices for developmental education

Objective 1 - Decrease the number of students placed into developmental education courses by five percent.
Timeline: June 2017

Objective 2 - Revise sequence of courses to decrease time in developmental education and increase options for students placed into developmental education to accelerate transition to college-level courses.
Timeline: December 2016

Subgoal 2: Ensure College services are appropriately aligned to allow students to achieve their academic goals.

Objective 2 - Create a relational student-advising model to increase student satisfaction with availability and accuracy of advising by two percent as measured in the student satisfaction survey.
Timeline: December 2017

Objective 3 - Implement a communications and processing center to increase outbound communications to students by 10 percent.
Timeline: June 2017

Objective 5 - Recruit and retain high-performing students and increase enrollment in the Honors Program by two percent.
Timeline: June 2017

Objective 6 - Strengthen partnerships with high schools to increase college-readiness and dual-enrollment rates by five percent.
Timeline: June 2017

Objective 7 - Develop a comprehensive outreach and recruitment plan to increase the recruitment, engagement, and success of traditional and virtual students belonging to historically underrepresented or underserved populations.
Timeline: August 2018

Objective 8 - Identify, assess, prioritize current actions, and develop new initiatives aimed at increasing retention and graduation rates of students belonging to historically underrepresented or underserved populations, including those that have an identified ability gap or accommodative need.
Timeline: August 2019